In back of his fury, Cafferata felt sorry for the Chinese. He couldn’t understand why they kept running headlong to their deaths, as though they wanted to get it over with as soon as possible. Some of them charged at him with quaintly crude weapons, almost archaic in some cases. One enemy soldier had a long pole at the end of which a knife had been attached with string. In other cases, they charged with no weapons at all. He wondered where that kind of bravery and fanaticism came from. Did they do it for love of country? To defend an ideology they held dear? To assert some principle held
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